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- From: hplabs!hpcnou!dat (Dave Taylor)
- Subject: The Msg Mail System Intro (+ moderators notes)
- Newsgroups: mod.sources
- Approved: jpn@panda.UUCP
-
- Mod.sources: Volume 4, Issue 4
- Submitted by: hplabs!hpcnou!dat (Dave Taylor)
-
-
- Following this message will be SEVEN 'shar' files containing the source to
- the MSG mail system.
-
- MSG is a screen-oriented mail system for Bell and Berkeley systems and
- replaces "mailx" and "mail" (and "mh", but that's a different story).
- It self-configures on mail transports and currently supports both 'sendmail'
- and 'rmail', according to which is available.
-
- It also uses the pathalias database, if available on the local machine.
-
- [ - a few notes from the moderator
-
- I was able to compile this system for Berkeley 4.2 (Actually ULTRIX)
- with a couple of changes to the Makefiles: "msg" must be linked with
- -lcurses in addition to -ltermcap, the Makefile in the subdirectory "src"
- does not have an appropriate default target (the order in the makefile
- seems to be wrong), and the Makefile in the main directory appears to
- be wrong when it attempts to build the "msg" task in the "src" subdirectory
- (it attempts to make "msg", while the Makefile in "src" only knows about
- "../bin/msg" - the two don't match). Berkeley users need to add the
- line "DEFINE=-DBSD" to the Makefiles, anyway.
-
- Also, many Berkeley derived systems may not have the "mm" nroff macro
- package. The two documents Config.guide and Msg.guide are written using
- mm. (Our system has the mm macros, but the page numbers formatted
- quite strangely - must be a difference in the System V vs. Berkeley
- nroff's.) If there is sufficient demand, I will post these two documents
- pre-formatted in a later posting.
-
- Also, I was not able to get utils/fastmail.c to compile properly on
- BSD4.2 (_tzname not found during link), but that seems to be a relatively
- unimportant problem.
-
- John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources
- (decvax!genrad!panda!jpn seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!jpn)
- ]
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